Trying to remove crapware after root - Verizon HTC One (M8)

I rooted with weaksauce and then tried to remove the Verizon bloatware with "no bloat" and a couple of other apps like it. They say the apps uninstalled but then they just get downloaded again.
What did you do to remove or freeze the crapware after root?
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Not gonna work with our current root method but just use Titanium backup for now...
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shojus said:
Not gonna work with our current root method but just use Titanium backup for now...
Sent from a Verizon M8
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How did you get Titanium to write to the card? I keep getting "folder is not writable" when I try to select a backup folder.
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hgoldner said:
How did you get Titanium to write to the card? I keep getting "folder is not writable" when I try to select a backup folder.
Beamed from the holodeck of my Nexus 7 FHD.
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Titanium Backup is the first app I downloaded after I rooted and I have had zero problems with it so I'm not sure what the issue is? I am just using the default storage location, have u tried to switch the location or has it just given you problems from the first install?
my backup directory is: /storage/emulated/legacy/TitaniumBackup

That's what he is saying. .. TB works fine if you use default location (internal storage), but won't write to external sd card as the folder location.
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JasonJoel said:
That's what he is saying. .. TB works fine if you use default location (internal storage), but won't write to external sd card as the folder location.
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My bad! Not sure then... I know that with our root method that we can only write to certain directories but I don't have a need to change mine as of now so I have not tried but I will report back.

I just froze/disabled everything for now. It does the job.

Are we not able to write to system yet?
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David 617 said:
Are we not able to write to system yet?
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Only /system/xbin for now...

Mike02z said:
Only /system/xbin for now...
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Thanks.
I was trying to mod some system apks, but I guess that will have to wait until we get write access.
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shojus said:
Titanium Backup is the first app I downloaded after I rooted and I have had zero problems with it so I'm not sure what the issue is? I am just using the default storage location, have u tried to switch the location or has it just given you problems from the first install?
my backup directory is: /storage/emulated/legacy/TitaniumBackup
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Thanks, that worked perfectly. With 32g internally, that's plenty of room to use for Titanium (and spare the space on the external sdcard).

hgoldner said:
Thanks, that worked perfectly. With 32g internally, that's plenty of room to use for Titanium (and spare the space on the external sdcard).
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Glad you got it figured out! :good:

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CM7 - Mount Issues

I understand that the internal sd card mounts here:
mnt/emmc
but the problem is i cant get something things to work i believe because of it.
eg... i cant take a picture with the camera because it finds that there is no storage.
i cant get Titanium backup to work. I understand i can change the backup location, but when i go to do so, the app force closes on me.
any ideas on what i can do?
Regards,
I've never been able to get Titanium Backup to "see" the internal SD card (emmc), so I just set it to backup to my external, real SD card.
yes but i cant even get to that point, because it FCs as soon as i want to change backup location
GameOver69 said:
yes but i cant even get to that point, because it FCs as soon as i want to change backup location
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Go into recovery and then go to fix permissions
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Suprah said:
Go into recovery and then go to fix permissions
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Same issue after i fixed the permissions. I have the latest version of TB installed from the market as well FYI
GameOver69 said:
Same issue after i fixed the permissions. I have the latest version of TB installed from the market as well FYI
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Try moving your Titanium folder over to the corect path. In other words put the folder back in the path mnt/sd and out of mnt/emmc/. It will go to the phones external partition instead of the actual external sd card that you put in.
Then put your settings in titanium back to the way they were origanally

I just got hit with the TWRP can wipe your SD card bug

I decided to install Clean Rom 4.0 Dev edition so I did a quick tibu, then booted into twrp and made a nandroid of my current setup
I then went to install DE clearing caches and /data
I went to install the rom and it wasn't there
the only thing on my SD card was my backup and it was corrupted.
I plugged my phone in and mounted the sd card and my computer said it was unreadable so I had to format it
I love starting over
I had cwm originally and randomly lost files off my sd card or were corrupted after mounting as usb so switched to twrp and have had the same problems with losing random files and corruption of files. So I don't think it's specific to the recovery its something else that's causing it. Wish I new what it was because it's quite annoying. I've resorted to only transfering files via dropbox or lan with es file explorer but it's definitely a pain when transferring a Rom.
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enabling titanium backup sync to dropbox saved my ass.
Titanium backup is the best andriod app I have ever bought, period.
gunnyman said:
enabling titanium backup sync to dropbox saved my ass.
Titanium backup is the best andriod app I have ever bought, period.
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QFT. while I've never had to pull a backup from the cloud I'm glad to have it as an option more than ever seeing as I no longer have an ext SD.
I also started syncing my photos to dropbox every day or so i can't lose those either.
gunnyman said:
enabling titanium backup sync to dropbox saved my ass.
Titanium backup is the best andrios app I have ever bought, period.
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I have it set up as well luckily that's one set files that I have never lost. It's weird there's no rhyme or reason to what gets wiped I've lost pictures data apps that I had saved copies of on my card data from apps. I just don't get it. I wonder if it's actually the internal sd card that's wonky or some way the usb is being handled when mounting.
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regP said:
QFT. while I've never had to pull a backup from the cloud I'm glad to have it as an option more than ever seeing as I no longer have an ext SD.
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Well I don't have to pull it from the cloud since it syncs to my desktop automatically but man it saves you from having to remember to do it.
E.Cadro said:
I have it set up as well luckily that's one set files that I have never lost. It's weird there's no rhyme or reason to what gets wiped I've lost pictures data apps that I had saved copies of on my card data from apps. I just don't get it. I wonder if it's actually the internal sd card that's wonky or some way the usb is being handled when mounting.
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I've wondered the same thing... It might not be recovery related since it happens with both.
That's odd, because I just flashed TWRP 2.1.7 yesterday and I was unable to wipe my SD card. I had to boot into the system and 'Delete Phone Storage' through the settings menu. Nothing would happen when I would try to wipe through TWRP.
afrat said:
That's odd, because I just flashed TWRP 2.1.7 yesterday and I was unable to wipe my SD card. I had to boot into the system and 'Delete Phone Storage' through the settings menu. Nothing would happen when I would try to wipe through TWRP.
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Lol your trying to wipe your sd card can't and ours are being wiped inadvertently
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gunnyman said:
I decided to install Clean Rom 4.0 Dev edition so I did a quick tibu, then booted into twrp and made a nandroid of my current setup
I then went to install DE clearing caches and /data
I went to install the rom and it wasn't there
the only thing on my SD card was my backup and it was corrupted.
I plugged my phone in and mounted the sd card and my computer said it was unreadable so I had to format it
I love starting over
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Go to cnet.com and download Recuva. Then do a deep scan and it will recover the stuff you lost... worked for me
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I had the same problems with my internal storage on HTC Touch Diamond. I lost a lot of files with that phone. With the HTC One X I have only lost a few Pictures that got corrupted, I think it all has to do with continuous flashing ROMs
Ahh, I hate this bug!! I've lost several things and have had tons of pics become corrupted.
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I just lost a few photo's today. First time I've encountered this bug. Guess its time to get dropbox and have it sync my photo's and tibu stuff.
I'm pretty damn paranoid, so I've started doing an SD Card dump right before flashing a ROM using ADB.
$ adb pull /sdcard/
Probably overkill, since I have almost everything important backed up somewhere, but I'd rather take the extra thirty minutes and make sure I don't lose anything permanently.
Only thing I was out was time. I back up my photos to drop box and Google plus.
gunnyman said:
Only thing I was out was time. I back up my photos to drop box and Google plus.
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Makes sense. Drop Box backup is the ****. :good:
Silellak said:
Makes sense. Drop Box backup is the ****. :good:
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indeed it is. I'm going to start putting my nandroids there too
Pumpiron579 said:
I had the same problems with my internal storage on HTC Touch Diamond. I lost a lot of files with that phone. With the HTC One X I have only lost a few Pictures that got corrupted, I think it all has to do with continuous flashing ROMs
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This is also my theory.
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gunnyman said:
indeed it is. I'm going to start putting my nandroids there too
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Is there a way to backup a whole folder with the dropbox phone app? Like... For instance I'd like to upload the entire TWRP folder. I couldn't find a way easily.
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ECEXCURSION said:
Is there a way to backup a whole folder with the dropbox phone app? Like... For instance I'd like to upload the entire TWRP folder. I couldn't find a way easily.
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I just drag them from my phone to my dropbox folder on the computer and it syncs
the downer is there's no way to move a whole folder from dropbox to the phone, from the phone

How can I erase stuff on my external SD card

Trying to free up space?
use a app like file explorer.
If you're not using a computer to do so, use a file explorer such as Astro or ES File Explorer, both are free and available in the Play Store. Just throwing this in here, if you plan on deleting CWM backups just boot into Recovery and delete them that way.
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You could even use the "My Files" app thats already on your phone
craigrn16 said:
Trying to free up space?
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if you're deleting nandroid backups, then do it from recovery. It'd delete appropriate data from your blob folder.
epagib said:
if you're deleting nandroid backups, then do it from recovery. It'd delete appropriate data from your blob folder.
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Assumes you are using CWM 6
Es file explorer is my goto
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Brian Gove said:
You could even use the "My Files" app thats already on your phone
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this right here.
= sent from my Unlocked VZW S3 =
Eeyup. The stock app does it well enough already I've noticed.
my files is junk use FILE EXPLORER as previously posted.
droidstyle said:
my files is junk use FILE EXPLORER as previously posted.
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lol, I was being a smartass... the OP acted like he had no clue how to operate his phone... far as he couldn't delete/wipe files... lol
Brian Gove said:
lol, I was being a smartass... the OP acted like he had no clue how to operate his phone... far as he couldn't delete/wipe files... lol
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Lol I figured no worries.
I use diskusage because it shows what's taking up what space
How to wipe external sd card
craigrn16 said:
Trying to free up space?
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I would recommend going to the recovery and wiping it from there or using a file explorer.:silly:

Upgraded to 4.4.2, how do enable full SD access again?!

Are there any workarounds? I tried the two xposed modules but they don't seem to work.
omair2005 said:
Are there any workarounds? I tried the two xposed modules but they don't seem to work.
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The following worked for me when I wasn't able to set the backup directory in Titanium Backup to my SD card:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2572354
gm2racer said:
The following worked for me when I wasn't able to set the backup directory in Titanium Backup to my SD card:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2572354
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Thanks that worked!
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[Q] Titanium Backup and .obb Files

Hello,
I have been using Titanium Backup for a few months now. And The only thing that bugs me is that It Cannot Backup .obb Files and Restore it, Respectively.
And I am not talking about backing up Games with over 1 GB of .obb file. I only want to backup 2 - 3 games with .obb less than 100 MB. But Titanium backup can't do this job? I have a pro version.
If I am missing something, please correct me.
thanks.
anyone?
I can only assume .obb files are possibly data files. I've seen them also within many apps. I'm also a pro user. TB might just be limited even in the pro version as to what files it will backup
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ShapesBlue said:
I can only assume .obb files are possibly data files. I've seen them also within many apps. I'm also a pro user. TB might just be limited even in the pro version as to what files it will backup
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is there any other app which can perform the respective operation in question?
Hmm
galaxyuser15 said:
is there any other app which can perform the respective operation in question?
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TB Backs up OBB files for me. Idk if the bug is device specific or even if it's a bug, but for sure TB can backup obb files.
janekmuric said:
TB Backs up OBB files for me. Idk if the bug is device specific or even if it's a bug, but for sure TB can backup obb files.
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I don't even see an option to backup obb files in TB. I tried to send it to TB but that didn't work. While I'm not questioning it I don't see the option anywhere
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ShapesBlue said:
I don't even see an option to backup obb files in TB. I tried to send it to TB but that didn't work. While I'm not questioning it I don't see the option anywhere
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There's one option to include "External Backups" But it doesn't/ NEVER works for me. I have tried to change it to "Always" but still no luck.
galaxyuser15 said:
There's one option to include "External Backups" But it doesn't/ NEVER works for me. I have tried to change it to "Always" but still no luck.
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Oh ok. I don't have an external SD card in my Nexus so that option won't even work for me
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ShapesBlue said:
Oh ok. I don't have an external SD card in my Nexus so that option won't even work for me
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No not a SD card. I think "external" here refers to data files in TB. As claimed by some users. However, that function does nothing on my Galaxy S5. Dunno if it can't support the phone or if its some bug.
titanium website says that It doesn't backup obb files
"Note that Titanium Backup only includes external data that is stored in /sdcard/Android/data/ directory. Some files like the OBB files are big and are downloaded straight from Google, thus never contain user generated content. These files are NOT included and are NOT considered as app external data by Titanium Backup."

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